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Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin in Building a Library with Flora Willson and Andrew McGregor

Flora Willson chooses her favourite recording of the piano version of Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin in Building a Library, and Roger Parker shares some remarkable new releases.

Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.

9.30 am
Roger Parker shares some remarkable new releases which have caught his ear and shares his 'On Repeat' track – a recording which he is currently listening to again and again.

10.30 am
Building a Library: Flora Willson chooses her favourite recording of the piano version of Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin.

Ravel composed between Le tombeau de Couperin in 1914 and 1917. It’s in six movements, based on those of a traditional Baroque suite. Each movement is dedicated to the memory of a friend who had died fighting in World War I.

Recommended version:
Javier Perianes (piano)
Harmonia Mundi HMM902326

11.20 am
Record of the Week: Andrew’s top pick.
Send us your On Repeat recommendations at recordreview@bbc.co.uk or tweet us @鶹ԼRadio3.

2 hours, 47 minutes

Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    Danse espagnole (Le Tribut de Zamora)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Symphonique de la Garde Républicaine. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.
    • Chateau de Versailles.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1 iv) Allegro

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 104.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Come scoglio (Così fan tutte, K.588)

    Performer: Pierre Génisson. Music Arranger: Bruno Fontaine. Ensemble: Concerto Köln. Conductor: Jakob Lehmann.
    • Erato.
  • Cassandra Miller

    The City, Full of People

    Choir: Chamber Choir Ireland. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Louth Contemporary Music.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Cello Sonata, FP 143 i) Allegro

    Performer: Bruno Philippe. Performer: Tanguy de Williencourt.
    • Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 - Franck, Fauré & Poulenc.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 110.
  • Robert Schumann

    Dichterliebe, Op. 48

    Performer: Neal Peres Da Costa. Singer: Koen van Stade.
    • Deux-Elles.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah, HWV 56

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Alex Potter. Singer: Michael Spyres. Singer: Matthew Brook. Orchestra: The English Concert. Choir: English Concert Choir. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • Erato.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata in G major BWV 1027 a Viola da Gamba et Cembalo Obligato i) Adagio

    Performer: Andrea De Carlo.
    • Fineline Classics.
  • Frederick Delius

    A Mass of Life v) Andante molto tranquillo

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Lawo.
  • Dermot MacMurrough

    Macushla

    Performer: John McCormack. Lyricist: Josephine V. Rowe.
    • Come Back To Erin.
    • Pegasus Entertainment.
    • 4.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 i) Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; The Nutcracker Suite.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Johann Gottlieb Goldberg

    Trio Sonata in C Major iv) Gigue Presto

    Ensemble: Ensemble Diderot. Conductor: Johannes Pramsohler.
    • J.G. Goldberg & W.F. Bach: Trio Sonatas.
    • Audax Records.
    • 104.
  • Max Reger

    Requiem, op. 144b

    Singer: Anke Vondung. Choir: Chorus Musicus Köln. Orchestra: Das Neue Orchester. Conductor: Christoph Spering.
    • Reger: Requiem · Mahler: Orchestral Songs.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 103.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die Schöne Müllerin, D. 795

    Music Arranger: Thomas Guthrie. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Singer: Thomas Guthrie.
    • Rubicon.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47 iii) Andante cantabile

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tosca

    Singer: Melody Moore. Singer: Colin Judson. Singer: Lester Lynch. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Carlo Montanaro.
    • Pentatone.

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  • Sat 25 Nov 2023 09:00

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